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Twentieth-Century Art

Elizabeth Carpenter, ed.
Frida Kahlo
Exh. cat. Minneapolis: 2007. 320 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780935640885)

Exhibition schedule: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 27, 2007–January 20, 2008; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, February 20–May 18, 2008; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 14–September 16, 2008

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August 20, 2008
Robert Conway
The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings from the Boston Public Library
Exh. cat. Washington, DC and Boston: Trust for Museum Exhibitions in association with Boston Public Library, 2007. 159 pp.; 73 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9781882507177)

Exhibition schedule: Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, April 21–June 17, 2007; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; July 12–September 23, 2007; Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando; October 11–December 23, 2007; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; January 10–March 23, 2008; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; April 10–June 1, 2008; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, June 21–August 31, 2008; Boston Public Library, Boston, September 22–December 1, 2008

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August 13, 2008
Sarah D. Coffin, Gail S. Davidson, Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, and Ellen Lupton
Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730–2008
Exh. cat. New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Assouline, 2008. 272 pp.; 380+ color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780910503914)

Exhibition schedule: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, March 7–July 6, 2008

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August 6, 2008
Michele H. Bogart
The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 368 pp.; 84 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (0226063054)
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July 29, 2008
Ellen B. Hirschland and Nancy Hirschland Ramage
The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008. 352 pp.; 48 color ills.; 58 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780810124813)
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Patricia Vigderman
The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Louisville: Sarabande, 2007. 151 pp.; 29 b/w ills. Paper $14.95 (9781932511437)
July 24, 2008
Sandy Isenstadt
The Modern American House: Spaciousness and Middle Class Identity
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 344 pp.; 99 b/w ills. Cloth $96.00 (9780521770132)
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July 15, 2008
Charlene Villaseñor Black
Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 272 pp.; 8 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0691096317)
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July 9, 2008
James A. Ganz and Richard Kendall
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings
Exh. cat. Williamstown and New Haven: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 328 pp.; 223 color ills.; 74 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300118629)

Exhibition schedule: Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 17–June 10, 2007; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, June 24–September 16, 2007

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June 25, 2008
Claire Farago and Donna Pierce
Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds
University Park: Penn State University Press, 2006. 376 pp.; 91 color ills.; 114 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0271026901)
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June 10, 2008
Mark Godfrey
Abstraction and the Holocaust
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 304 pp.; 40 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780300126761)
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May 28, 2008
Tamar Garb
The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814–1914
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 288 pp.; 70 color ills.; 140 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300111187)
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May 27, 2008
Nathalie Bondil, ed.
¡Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today
Exh. cat. New York: Prestel, 2008. 424 pp.; 400 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9783791340197)

Exhibition schedule: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, January 31–June 8, 2008

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May 21, 2008
Allan Antliff
Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 292 pp.; 4 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780226021041)
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May 14, 2008
Deborah Rothschild, ed.
Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Exh. cat. Williamstown and Berkeley: Williams College Museum of Art in association with University of California Press, 2007. 244 pp.; 70 color ills.; 145 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780520252400)

Exhibition schedule: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, July 8–November 11, 2007; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, February 26–May 4, 2008; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, June 8–September 15, 2008

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May 14, 2008
Okwui Enwezor
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
Exh. cat. New York and Göttingen: International Center of Photography and Steidl, 2008. 224 pp.; 185 ills. Paper $45.00 (978385216229)

Exhibition schedule: International Center of Photography, New York, January 18–May 4, 2008

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April 23, 2008
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
Exh. cat. Salem, Washington, DC, and New Haven: Peabody Essex Museum and Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 392 pp.; 183 color ills.; 114 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300111620)

Exhibition schedule: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, November 17, 2006–February 19, 2007; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, April 28–August 19, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 6, 2007–January 6, 2008

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April 22, 2008
Katherine Ware and Peter Barberie
Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julian Levy Gallery
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2006. 336 pp.; 284 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300116438)

Exhibition schedule: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, June 17–September 17, 2006

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April 1, 2008
Kathleen Pyne
Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle
Exh. cat. Berkeley, Santa Fe, and Atlanta: University of California Press, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, and High Museum of Art Atlanta, 2007. 378 pp.; 97 color ills.; 69 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780520241893)

Exhibition schedule: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, September 21, 2007–January 13, 2008; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, February 9–May 4, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, May 24–September 28, 2008

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March 25, 2008
Edward van Voolen
My Grandparents, My Parents and I: Jewish Art and Culture
Munich: Prestel, 2006. 192 pp.; 200 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9783791333625)
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March 19, 2008
Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard
Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators
Exh. cat. Washington, DC: American University Museum, 2007. 64 pp.; 43 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Paper $10.00 (1879383659)

Exhibition schedule: American University Museum, Washington, DC, November 6, 2007–January 27, 2008

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March 19, 2008
Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin, eds.
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art
Exh. cat. New York: Brooklyn Museum and Merrell Publishers, 2007. 304 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $39.95 (087273157X)

Exhibition schedule: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, March 23–July 1, 2007; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, September 19–December 9, 2007

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Shulamit Reinharz, ed.
Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture
Waltham, MA: Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, 2007. 125 pp.; 91 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780979809408)

Exhibition schedule: Kniznick Gallery, Women’s Studies Research Center; and Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, October 2–December 14, 2007; Mabel Douglass Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, January 15–July 31, 2008; Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, August 23–October 27, 2008; Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC, January 24–March 29, 2009; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, June 27–October 11, 2009

February 26, 2008
Alejandro Anreus, Diana L. Linden, and Jonathan Weinberg, eds.
The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere
University Park: Penn State University Press, 2006. 384 pp.; 97 b/w ills. Paper $50.00 (027102691X)
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February 22, 2008
Susan Earle, ed.
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
Exh. cat. New Haven and Lawrence, KS: Yale University Press in association with Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2007. 272 pp.; 139 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300121803)

Exhibition schedule: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, September 8–December 2, 2007; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, January 19–April 13, 2008; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, May 9–August 3, 2008; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, August 30–November 30, 2008

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February 5, 2008
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, ed.
Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 246 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816646883)
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John V. Maciuika
Before the Bauhaus: Architecture, Politics, and the German State, 1890–1920
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 386 pp.; 129 b/w ills. Cloth $91.00 (9780521790048)
January 23, 2008
Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, ed.
The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection
Exh. cat. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, 2007. 344 pp.; 70 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780977145362)

Exhibition schedule: Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, February 20–April 22, 2007; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, September 12–December 8, 2007

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January 22, 2008
Blake Stimson
The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 230 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (026269333X)
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Louis Kaplan
American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 248 pp.; 11 color ills.; 61 b/w ills. Paper $26.00 (0816645701)
January 15, 2008
Aruna D’Souza and Tom McDonough, eds.
The Invisible Flâneuse? Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006. 185 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (9780719067846)
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November 28, 2007
Catherine Lampert and Antoinette Le Normand-Romain
Rodin
Exh. cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2006. 320 pp.; 370 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781903973660)

Exhibition schedule: Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 23, 2006–January 1, 2007; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, February 9–May 13, 2007

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Antoinette Le Normand-Romain and Christina Buley-Uribe
Auguste Rodin: Drawings and Watercolors
London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007. 440 pp.; 373 ills. Cloth $34.95 (0500238359)
November 15, 2007
Hoi-chiu Tang
A Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting: The Art of Lin Fengmian
Exh. cat. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2007. 204 pp.; 115 ills. HKD 168.00 (96221520410)

Exhibition schedule: Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, April 4–June 3, 2007

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October 18, 2007
SITE Santa Fe
Stephen Bush: Gelderland
Exh. cat. Santa Fe, NM: SITE Santa Fe, 2007. 96 pp.; 42 color ills.; 2 b/w ills. Cloth $20.00 (9780976449256)

Exhibition schedule: SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, February 10–May 13, 2007

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October 16, 2007
Gavin Butt
Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948–1963
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 232 pp.; 4 color ills.; 44 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (0822334984)
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September 19, 2007
Rebecca Zurier
Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 418 pp.; 12 color ills.; 149 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780520220188)
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September 12, 2007
Ann Boulton, Jay Fisher, Dorothy Kosinski, Steve Nash, and Oliver Shell
Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
Exh. cat. Baltimore, Dallas, and New Haven: Baltimore Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and Nasher Sculpture Center in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 312 pp.; 261 color ills.; 35 b/w ills. $60.00 (9780300115413)

Exhibition schedule: Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, January 21–April 29, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 9–September 16, 2007; Baltimore Museum of Art, October 28, 2007–February 3, 2008

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August 29, 2007
Fereshteh Daftari, ed.
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking
Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2006. 112 pp.; 98 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (0870700855)

Exhibition schedule: Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 26–May 22, 2006

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Venetia Porter, ed.
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East
Exh. cat. London: British Museum Press, 2006. 144 pp.; 204 color ills. Cloth (0714111635)

Exhibition schedule: British Museum, London, May 18–September 2, 2006

August 16, 2007
David E. James
The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geographies of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 562 pp.; 82 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780520242579)
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July 26, 2007
Jennifer R. Gross, ed.
The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America
Yale University Press in association with Yale University Art Gallery, 2006. 252 pp.; 302 color ills.; 62 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300109210)

Exhibition schedule: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, April 23–August 20, 2006; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, October 14, 2006–January 21, 2007; Dallas Museum of Art, June 10–September 16, 2007; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, October 26, 2007–February 3, 2008; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2010

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July 26, 2007
Thomas R. H. Havens
Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. 312 pp.; 10 color ills.; 24 b/w ills. Cloth $38.00 (0824830113)
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June 21, 2007
Charles Brock
Charles Sheeler: Across Media
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 240 pp.; 55 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0520248724)

Exhibition schedule: National Gallery of Art, May 7–September 4, 2006; Art Institute of Chicago, October 15, 2006–January 7, 2007; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de Young Museum), February 20–May 6, 2007

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June 12, 2007
Carmen Giménez and Francisco Calvo Seraller
Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth and History
Exh. cat. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2006. 446 pp.; 222 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (8496209733)

Exhibition schedule: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, November 17, 2006–March 28, 2007

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April 25, 2007
Camille Morineau, ed.
Yves Klein. Corps, couleur, immatériel
Exh. cat. Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2006. 320 pp.; 260 color ills.; 130 b/w ills. Cloth (2844263046)

Exhibition schedule: Centre Pompidou, Paris, October 5, 2006–February 5, 2007; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, March 9–June 3, 2007

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April 18, 2007
Richard Armstrong
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images
Exh. cat. Ghent, Belgium and Los Angeles: Ludion and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2006. 256 pp.; 250 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9055446211)

Exhibition schedule: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 19, 2006–March 4, 2007

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April 12, 2007
Thomas Crow, Branden W. Joseph, Paul Schimmel, and Charles Stuckey
Robert Rauschenberg: Combines
Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2005. 317 pp.; 170 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (0914357921)

Exhibition schedule: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 20, 2005–April 2, 2006; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, May 21–September 11, 2006; Musée national d’arte moderne, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, October 25, 2006–January 21, 2007; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, February 17–May 6, 2007

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January 18, 2007
Wayne Craven
Stanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities
Columbia University Press, 2005. 288 pp.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0231133448)
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November 7, 2006
Tom Sandqvist
Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire
MIT Press, 2006. 434 pp.; 16 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00
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October 24, 2006
Donna M. Cassidy
Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation
Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2005. 416 pp.; 17 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (1584654465)
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October 11, 2006
Martin A. Berger
Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture
Berkeley: University of California Press, 252 pp.; 79 b/w ills. $49.95 (0520244591)
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September 12, 2006
Cécile Whiting
Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 268 pp.; 20 color ills.; 77 b/w ills. Cloth (0520244605)
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September 12, 2006
A. Joan Saab
For the Millions: American Art and Culture Between the Wars
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 240 pp.; 51 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0812238184)
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September 6, 2006
Janet Abramowicz
Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence
Yale University Press, 2005. 288 pp.; 41 color ills.; 71 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300100361)
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August 7, 2006
Caroline Jones
Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 544 pp.; 23 color ills.; 127 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0226409511)
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August 2, 2006
Haidee Wasson
Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 314 pp.; 20 b/w ills. Paper (0520241312)
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David E. James
The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 548 pp.; 82 b/w ills. Paper (0520242580)
June 12, 2006
Yevgenia Petrova, ed.
Mir Iskusstva: Russia’s Age of Elegance
St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, State Russian Museum, 2005. 152 pp.; 155 color ills.; 9 b/w ills. Cloth (0967845130)

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, June 4–September 14, 2005; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, October 8–December 31, 2005; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, February 25–June 11, 2006

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June 8, 2006
Judith B. Tankard
Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement: Reality and Imagination
Har